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This Talk Ain't Cheap: Limbaugh Signs New Deal
Rush Limbaugh will make about $38 million a year to continue his radio show over the next eight years. In addition, he says will be getting a nine-figure signing bonus from Premiere Radio Networks. Limbaugh gave the information to The New York Times...Tags: Phillip Noyce, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Rock and Roll Music, Ringo Starr, National Government
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Sculpture falls from Met wall
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reported Tuesday that a 15th century glazed terra cotta relief sculpture of St. Michael the Archangel by Andrea della Robbia came loose from its wall mounts and fell onto a stone floor....Tags: Auction Service, Sculpture, Boy George, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heath Ledger
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Anne Arundel Datebook
TODAY Lighthouse toursThe Annapolis Maritime Museum, 723 Second St., will host tours at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. of the historic Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, leaving from the museum dock on Back Creek. Participants must be at least 12 years old. The cost...Tags: Event Planning, Culture, Society, Harry S Truman, Ceremonies
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The Free Sheet
Flowers and art Local DJ Jerry Thrasher provides the music while you peruse the floral and fine-art items for sale at the Sykesville Flower and Artisans Festival on Saturday. Many local flower vendors and artists will fill Main Street for the event, which...Tags: Folk Music, Sykesville, Perry Hall, Festive Event, Giuseppe Verdi
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Long-time Bayreuth festival director, Wagner heir steps down
BAYREUTH, Germany — Wolfgang Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner's operas, said in a letter issued Tuesday that he will step down after leading the event for nearly six decades. The letter from the 88-year-old...Tags: Festive Event
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On this day in history
On May 22, 1761, the first life insurance policy in the U.S. was issued, in Philadelphia. In 1813 composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany. In 1868 the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds in the Great Train Robbery near...Tags: Economic Policy, Johnny Carson, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ford Motor Co.
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New York Philharmonic to play in North Korea
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNot since 1950 when the U.S. Army briefly captured Pyongyang during the Korean War have so many Americans descended on the world's most reclusive, anti-U.S. capital. This time, though, the invasion is not military, but musical. A 747 jumbo jet from...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Culture, National Government, Jimmy Carter, Government
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Live: Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour
Times Pop Music CriticKANYE WEST has always fancied himself a hero; now he has staged his "Götterdämmerung." The hip-hop star may or may not have been thinking about Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle when he decided to turn his Glow in the Dark tour into an apocalyptic space...Tags: Popular Music, Natural Disasters, Values, Poetry, Disasters
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
Tribune staff reporterTo many, it seemed nothing more than a hugely impractical scheme, like something cooked up by Mickey Rooney and friends in one of those old Andy Hardy movies: "You bring the costumes," "I'll get the barn." Cassandras predicted the curtain would never go...Tags: Classical Music, Maria Callas, Civic Opera House, Music Theater, Mickey Rooney
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The inner workings of Hearst Castle
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSan Simeon, Calif. It doesn't take long, wandering behind the scenes among the 38 bedrooms and 41 bathrooms (not counting those in the guest quarters next door), to sense a few differences between your house and Hearst Castle. The museum accreditation,...Tags: Marion Davies, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Sales, Renovation
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